What year did Germany have 4 digits as the telephone number?

Question

I have some furniture that has a label with a German telephone number and I am trying to find out how old it is.

Answer 1

This digitis are from the first time of automatic dial traffic. The German Telekom (former Deutsche Bundespost) gave 4 digits for users in small villages. In bigger cities there have 5-8 digits. Now in isdn times there are not any kinds of differences, how long a phonenumber is.

In Germany is forwards the phonecall number, a spezific area number Berlin 030 or Frankfurt 069 (big citys 3 digits), in smaller citys for example Wiesbaden 0611 (4 digits) and in small cities or countryside example 06432 or 05432 (5 digits). This number plus phonecall user is not longer as 11 digits (sometimes 12-13).

The International standard for phonenumber says not longer as 15 digits, with the Country number (Germany 049) without the "0" in the area number.

Answer 2

they sometimes still have...

the local grids have prefixes that range from two to four digits, (not counting the leading zero) and like frankfurt has 069-xxxx or hamburg 040xxxx

the actual phonenumbers range from four to six digits, with smaller grids often having only three to five digits... big private grids usually have three digit numbers, followed by desk number.... there is nor real system in the number of digits. people who never move, usually still have the same number they got when they first got hooked up... these being the three and four digit numbers mainly... when ISDN became popular, a lot of then disabled and not again ativated four digit numbers came back into use too...

so, if you ask me, your best bet is to call the number and ask them if they know anything about the furniture you have.
seriously, its probably a furniture store on the line

Answer 3

1961

Answer 4

who cares!!!